![]() ![]() Generally, people from the studio watch what the main unit shoots, but all of the horror stuff was being done second unit, directed by me on the weekends. ![]() I don’t think anyone at the studio had really seen that stuff before because I was shooting in England. It had all this gross horror and all these disturbing images. So the cut of the movie was quite baggy, quite long.Ĭan you recall what the studio’s first reaction to the film was? We only had four weeks or so to do a cut before we first put it in front of an audience. Suddenly, Paramount had a big slot open in the summer. Paramount was producing “Titanic” with 20th Century Fox at the time and James Cameron had just announced that would be pushing to the winter. We were in a very strange position in that our release date changed suddenly. You’re putting your movie that you’ve worked on for a long time in front of an audience of 350 people who don’t care about how hard you worked. Testing is not any director’s favorite part of the filmmaking process. It sounds like test screenings played a major role in shaping the final cut. I rewatched the movie with the commentary by you and producer Jeremy Bolt. To commemorate the silver anniversary of “Event Horizon,” Anderson sat down for a conversation with Variety to discuss the film’s troubled post-production process, its growing following and how it unleashed a love for the horror genre that has influenced the director’s entire career.Ī member of the team studies the experimental engine of the Event Horizon. Paramount has even come around on the film, with its home entertainment branch launching a new limited edition 4K Ultra Blu-Ray SteelBook of “Event Horizon,” just a few days before the film celebrates its 25th anniversary on Aug. I think that overtime it’s been appreciated for that.”Īlthough “Event Horizon” wasn’t built to succeed as a summer tentpole in theaters, it has become one of the premier cult films of the ’90s. “When you disturb an audience they’re not going to go, ‘Oh that was an excellent cinema-going experience.’ But we delivered a movie that really stayed with people. “I don’t think we were ever going to test great because the end of the movie is a bit of a downer,” Anderson shared. The remaining members of the crew, a varied group of work buddies, are played by Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Richard T. “Event Horizon” boasts an impressive ensemble, led by ’90s kings Laurence Fishburne, who plays the crew’s cautious leader, and Sam Neill, as the suspect engineer behind the missing ship’s experimental engine. Turns out (spoiler alert) they opened a space portal… to hell. What begins as a cautious exploration of metallic caverns builds to a frenzy of hallucinatory gore after the bloody fate of the ship’s crew is uncovered. The film follows a crew venturing to the outer reaches of the solar system to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a space ship and its even more perplexing reappearance seven years later. Peppered with images of unspooled astronaut guts and suicidal blood orgies, it’s safe to say that “Event Horizon” had boldly gone where no “Star Trek” entry had gone before. “They weren’t only horrified by my movie they felt I was besmirching ‘Star Trek’ somehow, because I was also in space and doing all this terrible stuff.” “Someone actually said to me, ‘We’re the studio that makes Star Trek!’” Anderson recalled with a grin on his face. Anderson had made a film so disturbing that it slandered outer space itself. When Paramount got its first look at a cut of “ Event Horizon” in 1997, some studio executives thought that director Paul W.S. ![]()
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